ETIČKA/MORALNA ODLUKA
ETHICAL/MORAL DECISION

Summary/Abstract: One way of distinguishing ethics and morality is to contrast moral absolutism, which can be deontological or utilitarian, since both look for absolute rules, with ethical life, which often refers to virtue theory and ethical substance, or the experience of otherness. Lévinas’ sovereignty of the other is an important contribution to understanding the necessity of a relation with otherness in order for there to be a self. The insights of the Kantian sublime, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche concentrate on what the ethical experience and what the ethical decision is. The ethics of life strongly tends to merge with psychological naturalism at one end and social conformity at the other. We need morality and ethics. There is no morality or ethics without contradiction, tension and paradox between the aspects of law and psychology, virtue and utility, communitarianism and autonomy. It is autonomy in the sense of an inner constitution through recognition of otherness within the self which allows the ethical-moral in the possibility of decision, responsibility, guilt and agency.

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